Electrical connector assembly with an integrated circuit module
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsHsin-Hsien Yu, Shun-Jung Chuang, Chin-Sheng Chen
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly (100) with an integrated circuit module (4) comprises: an insulative housing (1) having a base portion (11) and a tongue portion (12) extending from the base portion (11); a number of contacts (2) assembled in a number of recesses (10) of the housing (1), each contact (2) having a contact portion (21) at the front end, a middle connecting portion (22), and a soldering tail (23) at the rear end; a shield case (3) enclosing the housing (1); and an integrated circuit module (4). The integrated circuit module (4) is soldered to the connecting portions of the contacts and therefore fastened by the electrical connector.
Claims17
An electrical connector assembly for mating with a complementary connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion extending from said base portion;
- a plurality of contacts assembled in a plurality of recesses defined in the housing, each of said contacts having a front contact portion, a connecting portion adjacent to the contact portion, and a rear soldering tail adjoined to the connecting portion;
- a shield case enclosing said housing;
- and an integrated circuit module;
- wherein, said integrated circuit module is electrically connected to said connecting portions of the contacts and located between the soldering tails of the contacts and a rear side of the shield case;
- wherein the shield case includes a top shell and a bottom shell, each of the top shell and the bottom shell having a lock portion interlocked with each other;
- wherein the interlocked lock portions of the top shell and the bottom are coplanar;
- wherein one of the top shell and the bottom shell defines a pair of slots, and the other one defines a pair of projections received in the slots.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a vertical base with a horizontal mating tongue extending forwardly therefrom along a front-to-back direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts defining a front contact portion exposed upon the mating tongue, a rear soldering portion exposed rearwardly behind the base, and a connecting portion located between the front contact portion and the rear soldering portion in said front-to-back direction;
- and
- upper and lower half shells respectively located upon an upper part and a lower part of the housing in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and commonly enclosing the housing, each of said upper half shell and said lower half shell defining mounting pads wherein the mounting pads define a mounting plane coplanar with the soldering portions of the contacts for mounting to a printed circuit board;
- wherein
- an integrated circuit board is assembled to the connection portions under an arrangement that when the integrated circuit board is assembled in a horizontal manner relative to the housing, the integrated circuit board is essentially located above the mounting plane;
- alternately, when the integrated circuit board is assembled in a vertical manner relative to the housing, said integrated circuit board downwardly extends below the mounting plane.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing including a vertical base and a horizontal mating tongue extending forwardly from the base;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts defining a front contact portion exposed upon the mating tongue, a rear soldering portion exposed rearwardly behind the base, and a connecting portion located between the front contact portion and the rear soldering portion in said front-to-back direction;
- upper and lower half shells respectively located upon an upper part and a lower part of the housing in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and commonly enclosing the housing, each of said upper half shell and said lower half shell defining mounting pads wherein the mounting pads define a mounting plane coplanar with the soldering portions of the contacts for mounting to a printed circuit board, said upper half shell defining an anchor portion;
- and
- an integrated circuit board assembled to the connection portions;
- wherein
- a front face of said anchor portion confronts the base and a rear face of said anchor portion confronts the integrated circuit board in said front-to-back direction.
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